AdultKing have you made any progress in getting the Registrars to take the domains. Seems like that would be the easiest and fastest way.

No domain, no site.

In theory it's a great strategy, however it's more difficult to put into practice.

That said we're working on something at the moment along these lines.

This would be a most welcome development! :thumbsup

A large number of pirate sites have gravitated to certain ccTLDs in the mistaken belief that these are safer than .com .net .org

Very soon this mistaken belief will cost several large pirate sites everything.

hey AK
nice to see it's going. any serious updates?

Nothing I can share publicly at this stage.

This is something we always knew, but it's good that there's some mainstream media reporting on the problem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...958_story.html

Yes.. you are next asshole.

We're now having Facebook remove pages run by pirates.

Today we had 37 Facebook pages removed as a trial run and will ramp this up over the next few days.

We'll also be re-instating our report piracy web form with extra options to be able to include Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and other social media accounts.

I expect to be able to get removals happening from Pinterest in coming weeks, we just need to figure out the best workflow for handling pins.

A new Rapidgator update

http://stopfilelockers.com/rapidgato...e-piracy-site/

We need your help.

Please consider sending a donation to the Stop File Lockers project.

Paxum payments can be made to [email protected]

or you can contribute to Copy Control at http://copycontrol.org/contribute

Every dollar helps us keep this fight going and now more than ever we need your support.

We are taking the fight right up to Visa and Mastercard now that we have full co-operation from P2P payment processors such as Paypal.

Cash flow remains the fundamental importance. Finding and retaining supporters is a crucial task. So when looking for areas of your business to start measuring and analyzing, it's worth asking yourself, have I preformed?

Seeing yourself through supporters' eyes of your trivial low-level accomplishments, the answer should be no.

I guess if you'd done more in the last however many years than *claim* to have stopped one fairly large locker, and several no one had ever heard of, you'd be better placed asking for more money.

Keep up the great work AK!

Now in conjunction with Visa / MC take on despicable ADULT AD NETWORKS that willfully conspire with tube sites to monetize illegal content.

Go NUCLEAR on these motherfuckers!

Is this the new angle, post a link back to your site to another article that says nothing new?

You and I both know you can do better.

Did you like the attention your Facebook post got from SD and WJ?

I noticed how you are pointing out the massive availability of adult content on RG, isn't that true of most file lockers?

You used the word "pornography" and the name of the 2 major credit card issuers in the same paragraph. I am sure that will get mounds of co-operation from them.

Robert post the things "the powers that be" will not allow you to post here on your site.

Good luck with your continuing campaign.:thumbsup

The post is strategic, which should become clear in due course.

What is SD ?

I did note the mention of M/c and Visa and the massive amount of adult content being paid for with their processing.

SD=Scrolldog, Richard Humphrey's pirate news site.

You know the USAwarez/Sex offender/convicted criminal copyright infringer guy from Ohio.

Ah, is he still banging on with his crap ? He's pretty irrelevant to us.

Sometimes you have to look closely for the gems hidden in the crap though.

We look over everything we can, you might be surprised what you find. They tell on themselves and others.

Any way to kill sites like JAVZoo dot com ? New concept for me.

Is your content there ? If so, we can have a crack at giving them a hard time.

Just people's content we sell. Not ours. I've brought it to their attention but never hear back.

I'll pass it around our team and see if anyone has some ideas.

And yet his project is called "Stop Filelockers"

Up to date no real big filelocker has been stopped by him.

Copious lists of micro blogs taken their paypal accounts we have seen posted.

Big Ones?
None...


And that in more than TWO AND A HALF YEAR!

:winkwink:

But keep sending your money!

If what we do is so useless, why do you bother posting and whining about it ?

Why the snarkiness? Multimillion dollar outfits like the RIAA and MPAA haven't killed these types of criminal enterprises, yet, either. The legal process is long and slow.

I see the pirates whine that he accepts donations at all. Adultking isn't allowed to make money from his work? Yet, the people who bitch about these things want to make money off other people's work. This is the true hypocrisy of these file lockers.

They piggyback on things that should be pure: like free speech and truly sharing information. When crippling legislation like some mutant form of SOPA is finally passed down, they are the ones who will be to blame for ruining the internet as we know it.

Ever spend time on a pirate board? All the rules and regulations of how to "share"? What you can say, what file lockers you can use. What happened to freedom of sharing information there? It's bullshit. It's only about money for nothing.

And yet people on here give Adultking a hard time for trying? Why?

I do not whine.

I do not beg.

I do not complain.

I just...


Well maybe graphical images and music work better with your audience.






I just think you are a pathetic fuck taking money from people that think you are one of them.

While you are not.

Plain and simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Tony_%26_Co.

It's worth pointing out that I receive no income or benefit from this work.

I donated my time for free, initially for a year and then extended that for another two years.

The structure is managed by a NOT FOR PROFIT association separate from Copy Control - and Copy Control Pty Limited, while being a company, places all funds back into the work it does. In fact Copy Control posted a NET OPERATING LOSS of $50,698 for the period 1st July 2012 to 30th June 2013.

I regularly do things that aren't charged to Copy Control and cover them out of my own pocket just so we can keep our head above water each month.

I am not paid a salary or wage and receive no fringe benefits either.

I apologize for the misrepresentation. I was referring to the arguments where money is brought up at all in the lame attempts to damn your hard work. I know you do not make anything from this project. Not that it would matter to me even if you did. I just find it funny that it has been a specific focus of your opponents (I guess to call them?) when their entire intent is to make money.

That's ok, I didn't think you were suggesting that I did make money from this.

It's always the same people bitching, complaining and so on.

Most days I am in the office by 4am, leave early evening and conduct phone meetings at all hours of the night. We've shut down lots of piracy sites and file lockers and this has ruffled some people's feathers.

The people who say 'oh this file locker was just tiny, why bother?' ignore that fact that sites like Rapidgator, Netload or Hotfile were once small little sites which were allowed to grow.

Keeping a lid on the up and coming sites is just as important as going after the big fish - some people are just too thick to understand this.

That would be great. It seems they are trying to use the new software to allow people to run their stolen content through boxes to their tv. if that is true I am wondering if that is a terms of service violation for most home internet or cable tv companies. Perhaps people should start losing their internet and tv connections for such violations. Thats actually happening in some places and perhaps it should be worldwide.

Your detractors are lame and pathetic criminals. I also do not get why people like DamianJ chime in. I suspect you are hurting the business he does. Maybe WDF should investigate Damian...probably won't find much of anything but would be nice to know why you upset him so much.

thx for having a war on FL

So basicly you just did admit working with two hats, right?

And you had a loss of $50,698


Now I ain't a fucking genious.
Like say Einstein, or as matter of fact any other mathematician.

I do math on what I earn and pay.


However you don't seem to mind and just wave away a loss of 50K like it's nothing.

And yet you beg for donations.

Something doesn't add up here Robert. ;-)





BUT HEY!

BENEFIT OF DOUBT!


Just tell us:
What sites did you bring down in over more than two years?
Just let us in on one sneak peak buddy!

Don't come with lists of small micro blogs.
We want to see results in large filelockers taken down!!!

:winkwink:

Because he achieves nothing, yet still asks for money. Sorry you didn't understand. My point was if he had actually achieved something beyond shutting down some lockers no one had heard of, people might give him more money. The failure of the project suggests he should give it up and stop asking for money to achieve nothing worth talking about.

HTH.

You'll find all of the closures we have publicly announced documented in this thread and at http://stopfilelockers.com

As for you Damian, don't you think Oron, Hotfile, Netload, Rapidgator and File Factory were once small file lockers ? Are you really so thick, so completely stupid, that you do not realise that cutting off the small guys when they are just starting prevents them from becoming much bigger problems ?

Sorry, that question was purely rhetorical. It's patently obvious that there's something missing in your cognitive processes.

What do you even mean by that ? Perhaps phrase your questions in a way that ordinary English speaking people can understand.

Yes.


That goes without saying.

Einstein was a theoretical physicist, not a mathematician. :2 cents:

You mean what thieves, pirates and scammers pay you to host their illegal sites ?


Are you really so stupid as to think that anyone could be happy about running a $50k loss ? Of course not - but there are times in life where you put principal ahead of self interest. However given that you provide hosting to pirates, scammers and thieves I would expect that you have no concept of "the greater good".

We don't beg, we ask. Nobody is putting a gun to anyone's head - also the people who do donate do so because scum like you exist helping the pirates, thieves and scammers.

You haven't read this thread at all have you ?


Read the thread and refer to Stop File Lockers website here http://stopfilelockers.com

He was pretty instrumental in removing Paypal from just about every file locker that has piracy as its core business. That itself continues to be a big deal, as is his pressure on the credit card companies. If you want to join a file locker today you have to give your credit card to some shady company processing through a shady bank. This was the driving change of his project.

I think his success to date is about what is to be expected. Like I said, it is a long and slow process. It's also a fight no one else wants to take up. He certainly doesn't stop anyone else from doing it "better".

Sure, it would be nice to storm the beaches and have instant recognizable success, but that is just not reality. It is an organized criminal enterprise than spans different countries and does whatever it can to hide its tracks. Only by bringing light on it will anything change. That is all anyone can do now.

still not a hater of this project, as i can not see what the negative is even if there is no positive. sure, the negative can be donations being a waste, but thats each and every persons choice and math to add up for their finances and crunch the numbers to see if they think it is helping their site. "donate once, shame on you, donate twice, shame on me".

My question though, whats the difference between a tiny file locker and a big one?
they are all the same, except amount of money flowing, and amount of traffic flowing.
amount of money is not an illegal thing in itself, amount of traffic is not illegal either.

what else is so different that make them untouchable after 2 years?


keep on keeping on! :)

Detrimental accusations against his company which could raise costly legal action if erroneous.